30 weeks

Hurrah! 30 weeks! This week we celebrated Jackie's upcoming wedding with a fun bridal shower, and I finished tutoring all my school-year kids. This is very exciting for me, because although everything should have gone well, now it actually has. I had this worry that I would unexpectedly end up on bedrest right before finals or right before Jackie's shower and I would leave people hanging. But now, ta da! Plus, 30 weeks! I'm aiming for 36-38 weeks, so 30 weeks is pretty crazy... so crazy I had to add one of those little counter things to my blog. it counts down from 40 weeks, not 38, but it counts up correctly, so I put it there anyways.

Yesterday was supposed to be our first class of the Multiples series at Overlake Hospital, which is where I'll actually be delivering. But, on Monday they pushed the series back a week. Since I'd tutored my last kids on Monday and Blake's class ended 2 weeks ago, Tuesday night was clear on our schedule, so Blake looked up UW's class offerings and we decided to go to Breastfeeding Multiples. Theoretically we will cover this material in the Overlake series, but what if I end up on bedrest or delivering before the series finishes? When we went to the class I was the furthest along in my pregnancy, so I felt good that we went becuase apparently everyone else is completing their classes much earlier! Plus, let's be serious, blake and I are both knowledge is power and it's better to know type of people. I'm not scared or stressed by bizarre stories, rather I think, oh, and look how normal this person turned out to be. I guess if that happens to us, we'll get through it. So, Blake's been checking out half of the prego books (and even DVDs) that the library system has and he summarizes for me (he's a much faster reader than I am).

anyways, the babies should be 3lbs each now, 3.5 lbs next week, 4lbs the week after that... so they're growing, growing, growing. I am swelling, swelling, swelling, which is a bummer, but to be expected I suppose. the other day we were in the car and I looked down and my ankle had disappeared! gone! on colder days it reappears again, but it's a little crazy! not much else going on, everything's the same, just a little "more" - more waking in the middle of the night, more belly, more swelling, etc. but nothing too bad. next ultrasound is monday, next doc appt is wednesday. hopefully they give me another 2 weeks of clearance to work at that point and we'll just go from there!

hurrah for 30 weeks!